Steve Hug: For those of us who have never seen you perform, what might we expect at a Rosie Flores show. Rosie Flores: Folks can expect to have a great time dancing and singing along with me.  I bring a lot of fun energy to the audience and and really enjoy playing my turquoise Wild Cat Epiphone electric guitar and dancing around on stage too. Steve Hug: Other than your home area, where is your strongest fan base? Rosie Flores: I do pretty well in New York City, California and Texas, and in Euro countries like Sweden, France, Germany, Britain and Switzerland. Steve Hug: What is "right" about "mainstream" country music, and what would you say is wrong with mainstream country these days? Rosie Flores: I don’t care to listen to mainstream country music.  It doesn’t rock my soul like the older days with hearing Johnny Cash, Merle and Waylon Jennings and, of  course, Tammy Wynette and George Jones. Those all were my main influences along with others like Gary Stewart and Charlie Pride. In the case of what I do think is right about the mainstream radio, it’s probably Alan Jackson and George Strait. Steve Hug: Is touring difficult for you, or do you enjoy the road? Rosie Flores: It’s difficult when the hours are long in the van…but I love the road and the chance to perform for a live audience. Steve Hug: Any funny road stories you can share? Rosie Flores: Well let’s see…there was this time when we were driving across country once and the tire blew out and so we tried to go and buy a tire but this guy couldn’t understand that we only needed one. (He didn’t speak any English)  So he was trying to sell us two! He wouldn’t go for just the one apparently.  While we were waiting to get the tire put on his dog came into the waiting room and started barking and tried to attack my bass player. When I went to call for the tire guy to get his dog called off, I caught him putting two new tires on and told him to stop.  So he took both new tires off.  We started a yelling match, all four of us and the dog.  We stuck that tiny spare on and we went on to drive nearly 100 miles on the tiny spare before we found a Sears.  As we laughed in disbelief as to what we’d been through for the rest of the day. Steve Hug: What CDs are you listening to these days? Rosie Fores: This month, I’m digging on Diana Krall, Jet, Django Reinhardt, and Tom Petty, Marshall Crenshaw.  Don’t ask me for titles of CDs.  Sorry, just various stuff that I have on my Ipod.